Mar. 1, 2014

Written by

Chas Sisk
Gannett Tennessee

A state Senate committee has put off debate on a bill that would give in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants who came to Tennessee as children, but it approved a related measure that would let state universities count the American-born children of undocumented immigrants as residents.

The Senate Education Committee agreed Feb. 12 to delay debate Senate Bill 1951, which would qualify undocumented immigrants who move to Tennessee before high school and meet academic standards for in-state tuition to the University of Tennessee and Tennessee Board of Regents systems. The bill's ...